“A person does not matter to anyone but himself” – Weekend – Kommersant
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Howard Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890 – an American writer who gave the world culture the myths of Cthulhu and revealed to mankind the horror of a collision with an incomprehensible Cosmos. For his birthday, they re-read Lovecraft’s letters and other texts and found out that he himself believed that real horror was much closer.
one
Fear is the most ancient and strong of human feelings, and the most ancient and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown.
2
I have always been interested not so much in life as in escaping from it.
3
Space is meaningless. That is why you need to carefully treat your illusory values, tasks and interests. Nothing in itself means anything, so we must independently protect the environment that makes things around us seem meaningful.
four
Universal human laws, interests and emotions have no power or meaning in the vast space.
5
To grasp the essence of externality—be it time, space, or dimensions—one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such attributes of our insignificant race called humanity, even exist.
6
I could never explain to another person the exact reasons why I still abstain from suicide—that is, why I still find existence itself sufficient compensation for all its encumbrances.
7
The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to tie all its parts together.
eight
We live on a serene island of ignorance in the middle of an ocean of black infinity, which is not exactly open for our travels.
9
“Good” and “evil” are our means at hand, and not some universal truths or laws. The only universal reality is thoughtless, inexorable fate – mechanical, immoral, uncalculable inevitability.
ten
For us, as for humanity, only one scale of values makes sense – that which is based on reducing the agony of existence.
eleven
We must provide and maintain the conditions that produce great abbeys, palaces, picturesque walled cities, vibrant landscapes with spiers and domes, luxurious tapestries, exciting books, paintings and statues, grandiose organs and noble music, great deeds on the battlefields— because that’s all we have in life. Take it away, and there will be nothing left for which a person with taste and fortitude would be worth living for.
12
All flowery fantasies about human dignity, eternity are just selfish delusions plus ignorance. As well as the infantile concepts of “sin” or “higher truth.” In fact, organic life on our planet is just a fleeting spark of no significance.
13
I cannot understand how a thinking person can be happy.
fourteen
In my opinion, only an idle aristocrat really had a chance at a decent life. Not only do I not despise him for his lack of struggle, I actually feel sorry that so few people could share his fate. People have spent too much energy simply to provide themselves with food and shelter.
fifteen
I am the deepest cynic of all, because I do not recognize any absolute values.
16
Time, space, and the laws of nature seem to me intolerable slavery, and I cannot conceive of a moral satisfaction not associated with their defeat.
17
Especially with the defeat of time, thanks to which it would be possible to merge with the historical flow and plunge into it: freed from everything transient and ephemeral.
eighteen
Everything, including infinity itself, is trivial.
19
The cosmos is just a stream of aimless rearrangement, and man in it is only a minor incident or accident.
twenty
A person does not matter to anyone but himself.
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